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Do you think that Alexander the Great is actual as historical figure, or now all his aspects are obsolete, old and all we can recive from studying him is just the knowledge of an historical process, or fashination, but nothing else?Thanks......ps, about me is still the Greatest!

Personnaly, i think it's the 'nothing else' option. Which is great by itself....cheers!susa

Your not able to think, you can't help it, you were born that way!

Oh well.... I guess i'm not, really....:(Are you? I mean, are u able to think?:)

Hehe. See, everyone knows females can't think. They only run on irrational (and usually hysterical) emotion!John

JohnI expected you'd defend my honour....But i tell you: women are irrationaly and hystericaly clever; whilst men are rationaly and quietly stupid. You know - behind a great man there's always a clever woman loosing the reins.Ha hasusa

I, as a man, refuse to believe that I am ruled over by female(s) like some puppet!Although I think maybe Olympias was SUCH a strong female force that other females found it hard to take Alexander's reins over from her control. And that's why it took him so long to start getting wives. - This is my theory to answer the gay? thing. How do you like it?John

Really, it seems that only Barsine, Memnon's widow, was skilled enough to break through Olympias' control of Alexander (at least in the beginning). Maybe this Barsine was a great woman, since she was behind two great men: Memnon and Alexander. But probably most women had little control over Alexander.Don't you think he should have broken all his chains and gotten a harem of 100 or so wives, like the other Persian kings? Then maybe he would have had a better chance to pass on his genes to future generations....Then, again, maybe he was too busy conquering the world.John

Oh yes and he did! He had that harem but he never used it! It was one of the points against him raised by his oponents. And additionaly he had no 100 wifes there but 362 (I belive) Persian kings had one woman for each day - I only don't know why 3 was missing.
Maciek

err, John, I think the "My mother made me a homosexual. (If yI gave her the wool, would she make me one as well?)" psychological theory for sexuality is a bit shakey nowadays. It is all in the fingers, now. However, strong mother, absent father...Did you know that more gay men are born after a war?

Linda,"More gay men are born after a war" - is that statistically proven? I'm not doubting it, Linda, it's just that I've never heard it before and it sounds very interesting.Still, we have to be careful - any mention of "g**" and we'll get inundated with the old debate... :-)All the bestMarcus

Hi MarcusWhat debate? The 'Was Alexander gay?' one? I like this one.susa

Hi Susa,That's the one.:-)All the bestMarcus

JohnHe wasn't interested in passing on his genes.susa

Hi MarcusThere was a study published in 1980 (D+¦rner et al., (1980)- reference on this page:http://psych.unn.ac.uk/users/nick/hormo ... 4.htmusing data gathered in Germany after WW2.The finger theory is at:http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/695142.stmI have tested that one...